Invited speakers, CV

NAME
Jun Li, AssociateProfessor
AFFILIATION
Department of Biological SciencesBiomolecular Sciences Institute11200 S.W. 8th St., OE-214305-348-7618, Email:
EDUCATION:
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, BA, 09/1987-07/1991, Biochemistry
Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology,SIBCB, CAS,Shanghai, China, MS, 09/1991-07/1994, Molecular Biology
Oklahoma State University, OK, USA, PhD, 08/1996-12/1999,Veterinary Biomedical Sciences
Research interests:
Genetic and molecular mechanism of malaria infection in mosquitoes.Discovering gene of mosquito related to transmission of malaria by genomics and biochemistry. Controlling mosquito to transmitmalaria by developing medicine and vaccine.
Selected publications(corresponding authors are underlined):
  1. Guodong Niu,Caio Franca,Genwei Zhang,Wanlapa Roobsoong,Wang Nguitragool,Xiaohong Wang,Jetsumon Prachumsri, Noah S. Butler,andJun Li (2017). Fibrinogen domain of FREP1 is a broad spectrum malaria transmission-blocking vaccine antigen. J. Biol. Chem. In press.
  2. Guodong Niu, Bing Wang, Genwei Zhang, Jarrod B. King, Robert H. Cichewicz, Jun Li. (2015) .Targeting mosquito FREP1 to block malaria transmission. Scientific Reports. 5:14694.
  3. Genwei Zhang, Guodong Niu, Caio M. Franca, Yuemei Dong, Xiaohong Wang, Noah S. Butler, George Dimopoulos, Jun Li. (2015). Anopheles midgut frep1 mediates plasmodium invasion. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 290(27), 16490-501.
  4. Xiaohong Wang, Yaw A. Afrane, Guiyun Yan, Jun Li. (2015). Constructing a genome-wide ld map of wild a. gambiae using next-generation sequencing. Biomed Research International, 2015(2), 1-8.
  5. yan A. Zander, Nyamekye Obeng-Adjei, Jenna J. Guthmiller, Divine Kulu, Jun Li, Aissata Ongoiba, Boubacar Traore, Peter D. Crompton and Noah S. Butler. (2015). Co-inhibitory and co-stimulatory crosstalk regulates helper T cell differentiation and humoral immunity during plasmodium infection.Cell Host & Microbe. 17:628-641.
  6. Jun Li, Xiaohong Wang, Genwei Zhang, John I. Githure, Guiyun Yan, Anthony A. James. (2013). Genome-block expression-assisted association studies discover malaria resistance genes in anopheles gambiae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(51), 20675.
  7. Yaping Fang, Jun Li. (2013). Genomic law guided gene prediction in fungi and metazoans. International Journal of Computational Biology & Drug Design, 6(1-2), 157-169.
  8. Mariangela Bonizzoni, Yaw Afrane, William Augustine Dunn, Francis K. Atieli, Goufa Zhou, Daibin Zhong, Jun Li, Andrew Githeko, Guiyun Yan. (2012). Comparative Transcriptome Analyses of Deltamethrin-Resistant and -Susceptible Anopheles gambiae Mosquitoes from Kenya by RNA-Seq.PLoS ONE, 7(9): e44607.
  9. Jun Li, Jose Ribeiro, Guiyun Yan. (2010). Allelic gene structure variations in, anopheles gambiae, mosquitoes. Plos One, 5(5), e10699.
  10. Riehle, M.M., Markianos, K., Niare, O., Xu, J., Li, J., Toure, A.M., Podiougou, B., Oduol, F., Diawara, S., Diallo, M., Coulibaly, B., Ouatara, A., Kruglyak, L., Traore, S.F., and Vernick, K.D. (2006). Natural malaria infection in anopheles gambiae is regulated by a single genomic control region. Science, 312(5773), 577-9.
  11. Li, J., Riehle, M.M., Zhang, Y., Xu, J., Oduol, F., Gomez, S.M., Eiglmeier, K., Ueberheide, B.M., Shabanowitz, J., Hunt, D.F., Ribeiro, J.M., and Vernick, K.D. (2006). Anopheles gambiae genome reannotation through synthesis of ab initio and comparative gene prediction algorithms. Genome Biology, 7(3), R24.
  12. Korochkina, S., Barreau, C., Pradel, G., Jeffery, E., Li, J., Natarajan, R., Shabanowitz J., Hunt D., Frevert U. and Vernick, K.D. (2006). A mosquito-specific protein family includes candidate receptors for malaria sporozoite invasion of salivary glands. Cellular Microbiology, 8(1), 163.
  13. Vernick, K.D., Oduol, F., Lazzaro, B.P., Glazebrook, J., Xu, J., Riehle, M., and Li, J. (2005). Molecular genetics of mosquito resistance to malaria parasites. Current Topics in Microbiology & Immunology, 295(295), 383.